penn state on life support. fallout from the sanctions handed down to the ncaa. what some in one baltimore county community say could have helped keep the lights on during a storm rolling through. parents, are you looking to save money on back to school shopping? what stores are doing to bring in the customers and helping you save cash. i'm charley crowson, megan pringle is off today. lynette charles is here with us. >> talking back to school already, that's insane. target is wall to wall with

notebooks and binders. >> it's july 24th. it makes me nervous. i'm not in school. i've been out of school, four or five years. five years. >> that's it? >> i'm a youngen. >> got to do the weather. >> we are humid out there, we are warm. satellite and radar picking up on not a lot this morning, we could have a little bit of change in the forecast in to the afternoon. enjoy the dry weather if that's what you like. temperature coming in at 74 degrees in buoy, 73 columbia. 76 centerville. a breezy day with the winds out of the west as we go in to the afternoon. look at the roller coaster ride we will be on as we go through the next several days. today 94. tomorrow dipping down to 88. we will be 91 on thursday and

friday. from there, temperatures will go back down. the humidity will try to get out of here. the humidity, not such a good thing. now a check of the time saver traffic with mike masco. good morning. good morning, everybody. we have an issue we have to bring your attention to. middle river, there is an issue involving an mta mobility vans. this is on eastern boulevard at mariners point. that's going to tie you up middle river. baltimore city, delays, issues light, bond, baltimore, lumbar, dealing with issues and delays this morning. lane closures, due to a water main break and orioles are in town. that's an issue by 5:00 this evening. avoid parts of the stadium or the roads surrounding the stadium. 695, liberty, starting to get busy at this hour.

we have a camera to show you. there is 895, o'donnell street. smooth sailing making your way towards harbor tunnel. a 4 minute ride. 95 to 83, cruising at 11 minutes between the two points, 795 to 95. that's a 12 minute commute. another check on traffic in a little bit. many of you sounding off on the facebook page about sanctions handed down to penn state. the school was punished for failing to protect children from sexual abuse by jerry sandusky. a $60 million fine, one year's revenue for the football program. also no bowl games for four years. the removal of all wins dating back to 1998. head coach joe paterno, no longer the winningest coach in history. >> no price the ncaa can levee will repair the damage

inflighted byger -- inflicted by jerry sandusky on his victims. we can make sure the culture, actions and inactions that allowed them to be victimized will not be tolerated in college at athletics. >> ncaa took away scholarships from the football program also. sanctions in place to make a statement to universities and colleges that sexual abuse victims and the hiding will not be tolerated. sherrie johnson is here with reaction from one sex abuse victim not connected with sandusky. >> 37 year old colby simon was abused by an older cousin as a child and for the first time she is going public. the news surrounding the sandusky sex abuse scandal made for sleepness lights, bringing up bad memories. she realized the older cousin who attacked her had other victims. she went back in to therapy to

deal with the secret, she says crippling a football program is a strong message that child abuse will not be tolerated. she says nothing will change the impact of being abused as a child. >> there is no closure to this type of thing, just the day-to- day coping. >> simon says she lives with the guilt of not speaking up and learning of other victims. >> what would she like to see in the future? >> she likes the idea that people are talking about this. it's important to create awareness to get people talking. this is the only positive thing that has come out of the penn state scandal. 6:05, also this morning, the deadly massacre in colorado at the movie theater, sparking conversation about gun laws, today a number of lawmakers holds agnus conference about the issue. yesterday we got ow fist lack at the man accused in the shootings.

james holmes, his hair dyed red, appearing dazed. he will be charged next monday. prosecutors say they are considering the death penalty. you lost power for days, some for a week after the nasty run of storms. this morning, linda so is middl some people there say it was not the power outage but the result of too many trees. >> reporter: they are blaming it top county. we are here in middle river. this is where the problem area is. at the bottom of the street in an area that's owned by the county. people who live here say the county has not maintained the trees that sit on the property and it's one of the trees that fell during the storm that caused the massive outage in the area. the storms swept through in early july, the power was out for 7 days in the community because of that big tree that fell on the power lines. that tree came from a wooded area owned by the county.

people say there are big trees on the piece of county owned land. they have been calling about the problem for years. they sent inspectors in to check out the area. in the next few weeks, some of the trees will be coming down. public service commission will hold a hearing. we have two public meetings scheduled, one for september 13th , the other for the 14th. both happening at 10:00 in the morning at the william donald shaffer tower downtown. there is a push to raise the minimum wage to help struggling families pay bills. a group involving lawmakers and clergy gathering, urging congress to act on the resolution. the bill would raise the wage $0.85 a year for three years

bringing it to $10 by the year 2014. parents, back to school items, stores are sweetening deals. wal-mart has an $0.88 section. retail tedration says season brings up the most around $84 billion in sales, second only to christmas. now update on the story we have been following. crews making progress on the water main break in downtown baltimore. workers replaced two small mains but had to replace a big one, the 20-inch main dating back to 1889. football fans, ravens training camp is beginning today. everyone coming out at 4:00 this afternoon. a number of players including ray lewis and rice will be chatting it up with the media

following the practice. the o's winners of five games are out to close the deal last night. tommy hunter was sharp, 8 hits, 7 innings of work. masterson was just as good if not better, he held the o's one run on 7 hits. cleveland wins 3-1, baltimore did take five of eight games on the road trip. 3q

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take a look, michael took this picture of a dried up lake in indiana. the u.s. department of agriculture declared 1300 counties disaster areas due to the drought and excessive heat. we need rain , the answer is yes. there is no relief in sight. there is no relief. drought is drought. it's difficult to get rid of drought. we need the rain. we are 7 inches below for the entire year. we need to have that come on. let me show you around the nation. you can see how sparse and scarce that rain is. we see showers and thunderstorms up to the north and a few scattered showers towards the west. other than that, paceically

everywhere is dry. -- basically everywhere is dry. that's including us. dry now, satellite and radar not picking up on clouds across the area this morning. we can see ellicott city, dark start and then the sunrises, we see a few clouds, whispy high clouds across the area in ellicott city. as we go in to the afternoon, there is a possibility with all the heat and humidity that we could see the thunderstorms build but it will be scattered in nature, not everybody getting wet. towson 71 degrees, we are warm. 8 annapolis. shady side 73. middletown 77 degrees already. the temperatures are really going to shoot up as we go in to the afternoon. we are dealing with lots of moisture. we have the dew points in the upper 60s in baltimore and also dc. 72 now for dew point in easton. it feels oppressive outside, this is the day where you are

going to neat need several showers, the weather pattern picking up on high pressure again, off towards the south, that's pumping in the heat and humidity from the gulf of mexico. we watch the cold front that will move southward through remainder of today and beginning to stall out through the next several days. change coming in the forecast. up and down pattern coming, future trend picking up on showers and thunderstorms possible in to the evening commute. as we go through time we will dry out tomorrow, we will be less humid and do it again, this is what i'm folking for today's. temperatures around 94 degrees, a very hot day on tap. stay hydrated. now a check of the time save traffic with mike masco. good morning. welcome back by the way. look well rested and happy. here is what the going on this morning. we have to take you to issues popping up. middle river, eastern boulevard, accident involving

mt, mobility van, we will be monitoring that, going to tie things up at mariners point. we have a car fire to bring to you attention, 695, at this hour, clockwise between 95 and 372, be aware of that. that's going to tie you up. we have the orioleses in town tonight. expect delays right after the 5:00 how. try to avoid that that issue. 95 route 43 looking pretty good. m dot camera, 695, harford road. that's a good looking commute. certainly going to change the course of the morning. how would you like extra time off for vacation? that's what more companies are doing to help keep employees happy. netflix and best buy are a few letting workers manage their own schedules. employers don't keep a tally of how long you have been out of the office.

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that's why lysol partners with schools to help teach healthy habits, habits you can reinforce by adding lysol wipes and no-touch hand soap to your back to school list. learn more at lysol.com/schools dangerous flooding, look at this, a man becoming trapped by the rising flood waters. firefighters had to use a bucket of an ex an excavator to rescue the man. they tried using a rope before lowering a ladder. the man was taken to a hospital where he received treatment. it's not just falling ice you have to worry about whens

glaciers crumble. a wave chasing a boat. more with wow factor. >> reporter: he wasn't exactly as cool as ice but there were no expletives to delete when this happened. off the coast of greenlands, part of a glacier collapsed sending a mini tsunami at this motor boat. just about every five seconds he said it. until the waves hit. the boat was sideways towards the glacier and when his uncle saw the wave coming he gunned it out of there. no one was hurt. not the tourists they were taking sightseeing. unless you think the only language he speaks is wow. >> i've never been this close

to dying before. >> reporter: the thing that seemed to impress people was the way the shooter held the camera steady and stayed focused instead of ducking and covering. yen says that's because he was looking in the view finder. >> the screen is pretty small. on the screen, the waves looked really small. >> reporter: yen is a 23 year old mechanical engineering student, said the ice was cracking for four minutes before the collapse and for some reason -- the boat damaged until later when they hit a piece of ice under water on their way home that damaged the steering. a relative had to come retrieve them, no wonder someone posted is this the prequel to titanic? tsunami ahead, thankfully yen isn't dead. wow was the victim of overkill.

>> unbelievable. the video shows a miami man was injured in a skateboarding accident not unbeaten by cops as he trade to tell police was happening. you can see from the video, he runs in and smashes in to the wall, cracks his face against the wall and had to be taken to the hospital because of this. watch again. face first in to it. he is missing a number of teeth. >> he is like i wish i knew what happened, who hit me. he was like it doesn't make sense. they had to have hit me from the back because i don't remember seeing anybody approaching me or anything. >> keep in mind, the guy said he was beaten by -- he was beaten. police say he may have been confused following the crash which is understandable.

a race in serbia, women competing in wedding gowns. they dashed 500 feet. the distance was short, but trying to run in heavy fabric is no breeze. the winner finished the race in 19 seconds. more fallout plan after a restaurant owner makes his position known about marriage. he is planning to sever ties with chick-fil-a.

looking for ways to keep families safe on the roads, it's become more important now that numbers show traffic deaths are on the rise. good morning, i'm charley crowson. megan pringle is off today.